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Contus Fly
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Scalability
Contus Fly has quick scalability applications from few users to lakhs of users. It performs simultaneously to communicate with the user with online presence.
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Group video conferencing
Communicating with a group using video calls on the chat app is an extra feature. You need an upgrade in group video conferencing.
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On Cloud
Host data on a cloud server or on your own premises servers to scale up your instant messaging mobile app's accessibility and scalability.
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High Profile Technology Stack
Build your chat app with solution powered by Ejabbered, Erlang, Amazon Web Services, MySQL, and much more under the hood.
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Customization
Hyper-accommodative for quick customizations, scalability, technology updates and integrations.
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Echofin
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Beautiful UI
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Cannot customize UI (i.e colors)
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Powerful financial widgets
In-app widgets, such as an economic event calendar and news feed, are available.
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Relatively new
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Ability to add pay-to-access content
You can host pay-to-access webinars.
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Currently only available in English
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Mobile, web and desktop apps
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HD video streaming
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Integrated billing solution
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Screen sharing
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Chat software specifically for trading teams
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Admins have full moderation and user control
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Talking twitter widget
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Third-party integrations
For example, you can integrate the app with your MT4 web client.
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Platforms:
Web, iOS, Android, Windows
Service integrations:
Yes
Screensharing:
Yes (Full HD)
Video Streaming:
Yes (Full HD)
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Chatwee
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Has a free-forever option
A bit less options available but works nonetheless.
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Real-time media and file sharing
Including YouTube videos and pictures preview in the chat window.
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Plenty of customization options
Chat size, color, fonts, language, log in methods, notifications, emojis, privacy, powerful moderation and many more.
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Single Sign-on
Users, who log in to the site, are automatically logged in to the chat.
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Integrated with 25+ most popular CMS
Developers provide easy to follow, clear plugin installation instructions.
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Clean design
Chatwee has a clean and easy to use UI. On the left there's a clean and defined user list, each name has a flag next to it. It's also very easy to move from one side of the screen to the other. There's only the most useful information on the screen at any time and the design never feel overwhelming or cluttered.
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Twist
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Focused collaboration
Channels are neatly divided into topic threads, focusing the discussions.
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Only 1 month of search for free
The free tier only searches the last 1 month.
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Guest roles
Guest members can be added that have access to specific channels; ideal for individuals outside the team.
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Grove
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Inline images
Web client embeds posted images.
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SSL for web & IRC clients
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Notifications
You can ping people separately, people online or everyone.
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You can use web or IRC clients
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Integrated services and workflow
Including GitHub, Bitbucket, Heroku and Pivotal Tracker. Also, supports webhooks.
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Platforms:
Web iOS Android WP OSX Windows Linux
Hosting options:
Hosted & self-hosted
Service integrations:
Yes
Screensharing:
No
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Trillian for Business
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Comprehensive security and privacy policy
Trillian seems serious about security and privacy, and is ready to explain in detail how they architect their service to achieve these goals.
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Self-Hosting available
If you are worried about third-parties getting access to your data you should consider self-hosting. With self-hosting you are in control over where your data is stored, who has access to it. You will also not be vulnerable to exploits of a third-party provider. Trillian supports both cloud hosting and a self-hosted Trillian Server.
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Native clients for Windows, Mac, Linux, iOS, Android, and Web.
Trillian has fully native apps for Windows, Mac, Linux, iOS, Android, and Web.
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Multi-protocol support
Chat with other Trillian users or those on Facebook, Google, AIM, ICQ, XMPP, Yahoo!, Twitter, and more.
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GroupMe
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Reads receipts
GroupMe has a built in function to read receipts.
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Drains battery fast
GroupMe, in order to have a constant connection which allows for notifications drains the battery of a device quickly, which is not ideal for a messaging app that one needs on time notifications from.
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Great web client
GroupMe has an excellent web client that can be used to send and receive messages and manage groups from the desktop.
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IFTTT Integration
Allows sending messages from web services via IFTTT.
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Integrated calendar
It's possible to add location and time with reminders directly in the GroupMe app.
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Makes it easy to silence 1 or all groups
GroupMe has settings that allow muting a single group or turn off all GroupMe notifications from within the app.
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Does not require everyone in the group to have a smartphone
GroupMe can set up a custom phone number which allows people without the App to send and receive messages. This makes it easy to add anyone to messaging.
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Platforms:
Android iOS WP
Publisher:
groupme
File Size:
Varies with device
Required Android Version:
Varies with device
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IMO
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Video call support
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No support for third-party instant messaging networks
On March 3, 2014, IMO will start discontinuing support for all third-party instant messaging networks.
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Beautiful User Interface
Although IMO has a comparable, and in some cases superior, feature set when compared to the competition its key selling point is its interface. From LifeHacker when it won "Best IM Client": Signing on, navigating chats by tapping the tabs at the bottom, searching for buddies, and virtually any other operation is easy to find and use. The app, itself, is very quick. Even sending a voice IM, if you don't feel like typing, is responsive and sends quickly. Everything imo does it does well, but it's excellent navigation really makes it top notch. IMO also has a fully functional website that you can use for chat while on your desktop or laptop. This really puts IMO ahead of the competition as you can use the same system on all your devices so you don't have to deal with overlapping notifications etc. (Note: IM+ also has this feature) It should also be noted that it has the highest rating in the App Store due to both the UI and its stability.
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Easy to switch between conversations with tabs
Tabbed chats make it easy to switch between conversations
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Lists and chat histories are searchable
Both your buddy lists and chat histories are searchable.
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Accounts can be linked so you don't have to sign in to several accounts
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Push notifications
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Concurrent sessions
Concurrent sessions allow you to be logged in on your desktop while also being logged in on your phone.
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Chat groups
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Flock
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Cross-platform
They have apps for Windows, Mac, Chrome, iOS, Android and web interface. And all the chat sessions are always on sync.
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No thread feature
Reply command only quotes snippets. There's no implementation to show thread(s) of an initial message.
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Clean and clutter free interface
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Cheaper than Slack
It is half the price of Slack and full of nice features like polls, assign to do's, etc.
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Very powerful integration APIs
Unlike its rivals, it not only allows you to receive events, but also allows you to push content to it and receive various user action events.
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No IT team required for setup
Moving a team or organization to flock does not require any setup from the company's IT team. At max, what might be required would be to whitelist their domain in case the organization's IT team has gotten external domains blocked. You can simply download Flock and invite others in your organization by using their email ids in order to start collaborating. That's all there is in the name of setup.
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Free if you don't need the most advanced features
Most of its features are free, even video conferences. But also they have a Pro version with unlimited chat history, Active Directory integration among other things.
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Unlimited groups and teams
There is no limit on the number of groups or of group members. Similarly, within a team you can have unlimited members. There is no limit of number of teams too.
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Faster than Slack
Flock is offering an app that is faster than Slack.
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Highly configurable permissions
For every team, the permissions and restrictions can easily be set over the participating members and the conversations they are having.
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Better than slack
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Stickers
Posting messages is more fun with them in addition to emojis.
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Customisable UI, integrations surface just like native features
There are multiple options like slash commands, message buttons, chat buttons, attachment picker etc., where the integrations can surface inside the native app. This greatly eases the discoverability of a integration, making it really easy for the team members to find and use the integrations.
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Platforms:
Android, iOS, Windows, MacOS, Browser, Chrmoe Extension
File Size:
< 100MB on all platforms
Required Android Version:
4.x or above
End-to-end encryption:
Yes
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Brosix
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Excellent solution for companies who would like to encrypt their office communication
Brosix uses strong 256-bit encryption that secures ALL communication channels.
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Not enough Admin controls
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Brosix is available on all platforms
This includes Android, iOS, Linux, Windows, Mac.
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Poor mobile version
The mobile version of the application contains only a few of the features that the Desktop client has.
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Easy to use
Brosix IM facilitates the internal communication and increases office productivity.
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Affordable
For $1.70 per user per month voice & video chat, screen-sharing sessions, send unlimited files regardless of the size, etc.
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Great admin tools
The Enterprise version of Brosix allows the Administrator to manage their own and unique network. The Admin has also full-control over the archives of all chats within the network.
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Easy to use
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Ryver
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Free
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Having Chat and Posts for Teams is confusing to some users
It takes some time to get accustomed to all the features of the program, like a separate chat and a feed for team posts.
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Threaded conversations
Ryver has Facebook like "Posts" that allow for threaded conversations to occur among teams.
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Don't have "emoji reaction to message" feature
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Unlimited users
There is no limit to the amount of users you can invite to join your instance/account of Ryver.
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Upvote and Downvote
"Do you like this?" questions can easily be answered with up or down votes.
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Drag and drop file sharing
Start a new post, drag your file (photo, doc, pdf, etc. 100MB limit), and starting discussing.
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Fast
The app loads fast on start-up. Any new chats, comments, and posts show up instantly. Overall, the app just feels rather speedy.
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@mentions for users and teams
Get someone's attention with @mentions.
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Desktop and mobile apps
Apps work great on Mac, Windows, iOS, and Android.
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Free conference calling
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Can hide topics until new comment is received
You can remove a topic from your nav bar and have it reappear when new messages are sent in that topic.
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Hosted on Amazon
Hosted on Amazon cloud. Service is very reliable. Ryver has been unavailable maybe once or twice in the 6 month period.
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You can edit a chat message
With Ryver, you can edit chats that you've sent.
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Platforms:
Web, Mobile, OSX, Win, Linux, iOS
Storage:
Unlimited
Hosting options:
Hosted
Videoconferencing:
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Asana
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Powerful team collaboration features
Asana has fantastic mechanisms for dealing with team collaboration. Not only can tasks be assigned to team members, but Asana lets users follow tasks and use hyperlinks to refer to team members within a task.
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Mobile version lacks calendar
Asana's calendar is present in the web version but is conspicuously missing in the mobile app.
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Free for up to 15 users
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Unable to manage multiple workspaces
Each "workspace" or "team" in Asana is strictly isolated. You cannot see your personal tasks versus work tasks or collaborations together, you need to log in to a different profile.
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Simple workflow
The Asana task workflow within a project is broken down into "Today," "Upcoming," and "Later." The tasks themselves have the status of either done or not done. There is also a subtask feature to group tasks together. Tasks can be assigned to other team members and are stored in the "Inbox" view for processing. This replaces email for some team communication.
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No task dependencies in free version
Dependencies is only available only to Teams and Organizations on Asana Premium.
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CSV export and print
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Can not use list view and board view for a same project
Asana can only choose one, either a list view or a board view.
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Very polished interface
Teams can have private (only visible to project members) and public (visible to anyone in the team) projects. Each member can also have their own personal projects. Tasks can be viewed in list and calendar views. It's possible to display only the tasks assigned to the user or tasks organized by project or team. Single tasks can exist in multiple projects. Lists of tasks can be divided into sections and organized in many different ways – tasks that still have to be done, tasks that have been completed, by due date, by assignee, by popularity, etc. Expanding a task will allow adding things like subtasks, tags, and attachments, as well as comments. Users can also subscribe to a task via RSS from this view. There's a separate view specifically for attachments. Search lets you find what you’re looking for quickly.
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Strange UX with strange workflow
Similar to task the manager in Todoist or Wunderlist, but not too complex for under four members.
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Tagging system allows easily filtering tasks
The tagging system enables project managers to easily filter tasks.
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UX Design is overly opinionated
The workflow is not very customizable, which forces you to use a flow that may not be your preferred or best option.
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Provides lots of help for getting started
There are many videos, tutorials, and reference documents to help you get up and running.
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Supports Kanban and list views
Asana provides a list view and a Kanban view which can be selected if a new project is created.
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Well thought out keyboard shortcuts
Keyboard shortcuts all involve the Tab key, so it is unlikely that they will interfere with shortcuts that have already been established.
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Integrates with Slack
It's possible to have tasks appear in a Slack channel.
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Platforms:
Web, iOS, Android
Collaborative:
yes
Search:
yes
Subtasks:
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Flowdock
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Proprietary (non-free/libre)
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Threaded discussions
An easy & simple interface to filter chat discussion into separate threads.
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No self-hosting available
If you are worried about third-parties getting access to your data you should consider self-hosting. With self-hosting you are in control over where your data is stored, who has access to it. You will also not be vulnerable to exploits of a third-party provider.
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Drag and drop file sharing
Files can be dragged and dropped in to the flow dock screen for upload.
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Buggy android app
Google sign up didn't work, then after going to the website to do the sign up, the invite team members screen was broken.
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Multi-platform
Browser Based, as well as: iPhone and iPad App Android App Mac OS X App
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Free only for small teams, non-profits or students
Unless it's used by a team of less than five people, a non-profit or students, Flowdock will cost $3/mo per person.
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Stored chat history
Content and discussions are stored forever.
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Smart pastes & code syntax highlighting
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Private chat option
Able to speak privately/talk head-to-head.
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Notification system
A specific user or everyone in the channel can be notified via @user or @everyone respectively.
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A full developer API
Flowdock API allows developers the freedom to create custom integrations.
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Create and assign PRs from Flowdock
You can interact with Github directly from Flowdock to create PRs.
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Free for teams of five, non-profits and students
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Data exports
Back up conversations and files fully at any time.
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Add Tools
On top of our 50+ custom integrations, easily integrate any tool that sends emails or generates RSS feeds, as well as having the option to build a custom integration with Flowdock's API
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Status updating
Allows co-workers to know what you’re up to "/status I'm busy today!"
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Google Apps Integration
Google Apps get a Flowdock link to the Apps tool-bar and won't have to separately manage users
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Typo Fix-ups
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Able to host users external to your team
When working with stakeholders (clients or partners) you can add organizations to manage internal privacy
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Platforms:
Web iOS Android OSX Windows
Hosting options:
Hosted
Service integrations:
Yes
Screensharing:
No
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Mumble
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Code available to anyone to inspect or use, no spy- or adware
Mumble is available as a free download and source code is available on GitHub.
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A bit more difficult to set up than similar solutions
The process of generating and/or acquiring certificates can be time-consuming and a bit more complex than setting up a username/password authentication that's found in other clients. Similarly, setting up a server that includes configuring user permission system requires advanced technical knowledge.
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Free and open-source server software
The server software Murmur is licensed under a free and open-source BSD-style license.
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Disconnect issues
Can have occasions of disconnect or users keep getting booted.
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Can be used on a gamers preferred platform
Available on Windows, Linux, OS X, Android and iOS which allows for the user to choose what operating system works for them and still be able to use Mumble.
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Relatively poor voice quality
While Mumble's voice quality is fine, and you can understand what's being said, there is a noticeable difference between it and many other platforms.
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Excellent voice quality
Since version 1.2.4, Mumble uses an audio codec named Opus that's specifically developed to provide low-latency voice communication over Internet. This means that there is no delay time, while audio still comes out clear.
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Low latency and resource usage
Dedicated servers and low overhead allows Mumble to have the least delay between users speaking and others hearing their speech, which can be very important for fast paced games.
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Push-to-Talk
A push-to-talk key allows you to only transmit audio when you want it. Others won't hear you chewing or your mom entering the room unless you want to.
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Free to download and use as a client
Mumble is completely free, even hosting your own server.
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Use of certificates offers more security and easy people management
Mumble uses certificates for user identification. A certificate can be generated by the user himself or issued by a third-party organization with organization certificates having 2 classes. A self-generated certificate is not tied to anything, a Class 1 certificate is tied to an e-mail address and a Class 2 certificate requires proof of identity. Depending on the server a different level of certification might be required.
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Server works on Raspberry Pi
Mumble server side is easy to setup and works smooth even on Raspberry Pi, which is pretty short on resources.
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Easily overlay over game
An in-game overlay can be enabled to show users in the channel or users talking. Overlay can be disabled completely or on a per-game basis by going to Settings->Overlay. This allows for users to see their chat but not obstruct the game they are playing.
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Sub-channels
By default, only users in the same channel can hear each other. Channels can be nested to better organize yourself according to what you want to be talking about.
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Secure & encrypted
This encryption is mandatory and cannot be disabled. The so-called control channel, which transports your chat messages and other non-time critical information, is encrypted with TLS using 256 bit AES-SHA. The voice channel carrying speech and positional audio is encrypted with OCB-AES 128 bit.
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Good audio normalization
Mumble includes great automatic volume adjustment functionality that can be used to prevent big volume changes while still allowing good communication.
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Positional audio
Mumble supports positional audio for over 50 games, including versions of Call of Duty, Battlefield and Counter-Strike. This allows you to hear the audio from the direction of the player speaking, making gameplay more immersive and giving competitive players an edge. You can find a full list of supported games here.
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Customizable UI
Version 1.3 introduced skins, allowing you to customize your UI, either on your own (tutorial here) or by using one of the skins found here.
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Portable version on PortableApps
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Server can be put on alternative firmware wireless routers
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End-to-end encryption:
Yes
Audio recording:
Yes
Requires a Server:
Yes
Secure:
Yes
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Free and open source
Rocket.Chat is available for free. It's licensed under the MIT license with source code available on GitHub.
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Developer support is non-existent
Can't even create a clean Ubuntu VM with a working developer install. Unresolved dependencies; fails to build. Docs are terrible; actual devs don't respond to questions; error messages are near-opaque. DO NOT RECOMMEND.
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Native apps for all major desktop and mobile platforms
Rocket.Chat has native apps for macOS, Windows, Linux, iOS and Android.
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Web client loses images
In chat rooms with images, before very long, images start to become empty boxes. Useless to pass around visual information
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Supports a wide variety of authentication methods
In addition to the usual email / username + password combination, Rocket.Chat supports authenticating via Facebook, Github, Gitlab, Google, Linkedin, Meteor and Twitter accounts.
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No theme customization
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Understands markdown better than Slack does.
Links work properly, for instance, with square brackets followed by parentheses.
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No chat audit for enterprise
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Very active and helpful community
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Poor security implementations / protocols
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Video conferencing support
Rocket.Chat supports video calls.
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Centralized
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iOS app is poorly made
The iOS application is not native, being just a browser container. This means that the UX is quite poor, slow, buttons unresponsive. At this moment they do not provide a decent experience.
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Android app is poorly made
The Android application is just a badly wrapped web-view which does not perform well and has no form of offline caching whatsoever.
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Privacy settings are absent
Privacy settings for the server are absent, for instance, you don't have the ability to disable registrations, there's no way to control access to the chat.
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Features not available out of the box
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No web browser support
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Email required for registration
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No way to block new registrations
Without the ability to disable registrations, there's no way to control access to the chat.
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Platforms:
Web iOS Android OSX Windows Linux
License:
M.I.T.
Hosting options:
On premises & On Rocket.Chat
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SecureChat
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Threads to organize conversations
Supports threads to organise conversations into topics.
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Non-free / Propritary Software
The code base isn't free/libre and cannot be self-hosted, therefore there is no proof that encryption or "guaranteed delete", actually work. There is no reason to think this application is secure.
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Expiring messages
Channels can be configured to have expiring messages that get automatically deleted after a pre-defined time.
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Guaranteed delete
Ensures messages are fully deleted and removed from backup.
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Servers 100% hosted in Switzerland
Protected by Swiss data privacy - some of the highest data privacy laws in the world.
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Encryption
Strong end-to-end encryption of messages and files.
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Drag and drop files
Drag and drop documents, photos, videos into the chat.
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Integrates with other tools
Built in integrations for Zendesk, Trello, Github, SupportBee, etc.
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Mattermost
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9
Cons
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Can be self-hosted
You don't need to rely on someone else's servers, you can host Mattermost on your own server.
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No easy End-to-End Encryption setup
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One-line Docker install
With Docker set up, you can install Mattermost with the following command: docker run --name mattermost-dev -d --publish 8065:80 mattermost/platform For other cases, installation instructions can be found here.
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Features not available out of the box
Difficult to setup the many features it offers. The easy docker installation is for the application only, not it's feature sets. Requires a license for full-set of features.
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Similar to Slack
Almost all features of Slack are available in Mattermost.
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Centralized
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Free - OpenSource
You can download and use it as free for self-hosted server.
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Poorly made iOS app
Built natively using React it suffers from unresponsiveness, input lag, and sometimes broken services. Coupled with a bad user experience.
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Mobile apps for android and iOS
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Poorly made Android app
The Android application is just a badly wrapped web-view which does not perform well and has no form of offline caching whatsoever.
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You can change theme
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Self-Hosted
This doesn't work for every type of company. Mainly great for those concerned with privacy, security, compliance and control of your data/information.
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Desktop app for MacOS, Linux and Windows
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Browser notifications
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Mark-Down support
Yes, it supports markdown.
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Platforms:
Android, iOS, Windows, MacOS, Linux
License:
MIT
Hosting options:
Self-hosted
Service integrations:
Yes - Atlassian, Webhooks, Chatbots, Extensions
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TeamSpeak 3
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A lot of features
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Mobile app costs money
TeamSpeak for mobile platforms costs $1.99 for Android devices in Google play store or $4.99 for devices that run iOS.
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Fine-grained administration options
Allows for complex administrative structures, with lots of roles and many other features related to server administration.
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Requires to self-host, rent or use a public server
TeamSpeak cannot be used without a private server (meaning TeamSpeak themselves do not provide servers). This adds complexity to the setup and may simply be out of reach for many users. There are, however, several free public servers available, Teamspeak offers to rent one, and many games have dedicated servers available through their respective websites.
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Advanced permissions
It has an advanced system to manage channel/server permissions.
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Outdated UI
The client itself feels really old, and even though there are custom huds, most of them don't feel modern.
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Works on all main PC OS platforms
Available on Windows, Linux and OS X allows for a user to choose what best OS suits them and not have to worry if their game chat software will work.
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Proprietary software
It's not free.
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Supports audio and text chat
TeamSpeak allows for both voice and text chat. this adds flexibility, and can clarify information if somebody has a very poor connection, or a very thick accent. It also allows players without a mic to communicate with the other players.
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No video communication
Currently there is no video chat for the app. While not essential for in-game communication, outside of the game it would help to strengthen online relationships with your gaming pals.
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Widely used
Among most MMOs (massive multiplayer online games such as Guild Wars 2, or World of Warcraft) Teamspeak is widely used so it's likely other players already use it and won't need to download a new program. There are also many knowledge and help articles available online.
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Too easy to hack
Your server may become vulnerable if you give admin away and do not configure your server properly. Keeping a record of backups is important, if you broke something while editing the configuration or your server has become compromised due to negligence. You will then be able to spin up a new instance.
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Voice Activation Detection while using Push-To-Talk
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Echo reduction
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Free for non-commercial use
As long as one is not using TeamSpeak for commercial services the app is free to use. This is great as most users will not be using it for commercial purposes (as long as you aren't making money off it you don't need to pay for it) such as gaming.
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Unlimited nesting of channels
This allows for very granular organization.
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Sound level tuning
You can tune everyone's sound output levels to meet your own personal preference in inbound volume. So to your ears nobody is too loud or too quiet.
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Supports Encryption
Under "Edit Channel" --> "Advanced" --> theres a toggle button called "Voice Data Encrypted". Everything but file transfers is encrypted.
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Plugin support
A wide range of plugins are available for those that want extra functionality, ranging from soundboards and overlays, to peripheral and application hooks.
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Private hosting
You can host your own server.
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TeamSpeak Sync
Signing up for a MyTeamSpeak account will allow you to synchronize your bookmarks, identities, hotkeys, whisper lists and channel subscriptions across all devices. MyTeamSpeak features will include addons synchronization, addons update management, and more.
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Clean theme
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No privacy nightmare
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End-to-end encryption:
yes (not by default)
Hosting options:
Hosted & self-hosted
Service integrations:
Yes
Screensharing:
No
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Stride (previously HipChat)
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16
Cons
8
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Top
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Will be discontinued Feb 2019
Slack acquired Stride / Hip Chat. Both Stride and Hip Chat will cease to exist. Sad since they were quite usable.
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Available on Web, Mac, Windows, Linux, iOS, Android
You can access HipChat from pretty much every common platform. HipChat even allows chatting via SMS.
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Prioprietary (non-free/libre)
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Powerful @mentions
You can ping people to get their attention even if they are not online by @mentioning them. Depending on how the person has set their account up it can be by notifications via in-app sounds, visual alerts, and even email, SMS, or mobile app push notifications.
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Reliability of service has been weak
The reliability of the hosted HipChat service, particularly in the early days of version 4.x, has not been a strong suit.
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Huge list of integrations
Including Asana, Github, Zendesk, WordPress, MongoDB, TeamCity, JIRA, Confluence, PowerShell and more that 40 others.
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Free plan has limited storage
Free plan comes with 5GB of storage, where as paid plan has "Unlimited".
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Cheap
Free with unlimited users, $2/user/month for voice + video calls, screencasts, full history retention and management. (Even enterprise feature like SAML)
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Only one-on-one video calls in free version
There is no option for multi-user conference calls.
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Simple, easy to use
An intuitive, easy to overview interface listing both online and offline users.
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No emoji
There's no emoji support. Instead there are some strange custom emoticons which only make sense for people steeped in internet subculture and never get updated.
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Embeds files
Things like photos get automatically embedded in the chat thread once you upload them.
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API calls are limited even on paid plan to 500 calls in 5min by default
This will force you to contact them when you need more calls.
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Guest access
You can invite people to join conversations even if they don't have a HipChat account. HipChat will generate a link to share and the guest will only need to enter their name to join the conversation.
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Non-synced notifications
Messages read on one client don't sync their status to another client.
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Desktop client
HipChat has an optional desktop client powered by Adobe AIR.
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Good audio and video support
HipChat audio and video works on mobile platforms and web browsers.
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"Rooms" for persistent group chat
Participate and keep tabs on ongoing discussions on particular topics or amongst certain groups of people.
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Self-Hosting available
If you are worried about third-parties getting access to your data you should consider self-hosting. With self-hosting you are in control over where your data is stored, who has access to it. You will also not be vulnerable to exploits of a third-party provider.
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Plentiful GIFs and custom Emoticons
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Syntax coloring
Pasted code can be colored based on syntax.
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Will be updated to have more functions in the future
A big company with experience will bring in more options like Google Apps One Time Login.
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Reliability has been great
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Powerful command system
E.g. part, away, all, here etc.
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Platforms:
Web iOS Android OSX Windows Linux
Hosting options:
Hosted & self-hosted
Service integrations:
Yes
Screensharing:
Yes
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Telegram
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Free and convenient large file sharing
Copy/paste videos, gifs, images, geolocation, documents, and even executable files. Drag over files for practically any time up to 2GB in size. Images can be compressed, too.
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Not fully open source
Telegram has an open API and protocol free for everyone, but the backend software is not open source. Therefore 100% privacy can not be evaluated.
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Free of cost
The application is available free of cost.
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Can only be used with a phone number
It is not possible to activate and use Telegram by mail etc. You need a phone number.
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Privacy focused
In addition to the end-to-end encryption [only in secret chats] that provides privacy to communications, the app also includes self destructing timers for chats, and the ability to permanently delete messages, yours and theirs, from your and their devices.
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Only "Secret Chat" messages are encrypted end to end
The only way to get end-to-end encryption (client-client) using Telegram is to use the Secret Chat function, anything through the service is server-client encrypted. Also secret chat is only implemented in the mobile apps, meaning there is no way to encrypt messages end-to-end when using the desktop client or the web browser client.
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Media messaging
Videos, gifs, images, geolocation, and documents.
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"Secret Chat" feature is not available for desktop client
Secret chats with end to end encryption are only available on mobile apps.
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Channels for one way broadcasting
Broadcasting channels suitable for announcing things.
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No source code sintax highlighting
Telegram does not have source code syntax highlighting, making it difficult to share code snippets.
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Beautiful UI
Very customizable with a lot of clean looking options.
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Does not work for visually impaired
Doesn't work for visually impaired.
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Possible to send photos and videos without compression
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Does not support spherical 360° photos
Spherical 360° photos becoming more popular these days, but Telegram does not support such format.
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Supergroups of up to 200,000 people
In Supergroups, anyone along with admins can delete their messages from all sides. A message can be pinned to the top. All of the user's messages can be deleted by an administrator, and they can be banned and reported as well. Supergroups can have a public link (outside of Asia, due to high spam volumes), which is also a username.
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Does not support text messaging
You can NOT make it your default text messaging App.
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Two-step verification
You can set up an additional password to your account, which can be reset by your email. You don't have to use an email if you do not want to. If you lose access to your email or forget your password, you will be able to reset it via text message if your account is over seven days old and will receive it within a week (in case you recover anything before then).
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Secure
Telegram uses an open source MTProto encryption protocol that provides complete end-to-end encryption for secret chats. To show off their confidence in the protocol the company behind Telegram has organized $200,000 and $300,000 challenges to break the encryption. So far there have been no winners.
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Saved messages
You can write messages to yourself. You can write some notes, add links, and see everything across all your devices.
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Cloud chat keys are kept in different jurisdiction
Even though encryption used for cloud-based storage (e.g. Gmail, Facebook, iCloud) may not be as secure as end-to-end encryption or zero-knowledge storage, Telegram does the most that it can by holding keys to chats in different jurisdictions, requiring intergovernmental cooperation to obtain the keys. This is aside from whatever other security measures have been taken, of course.
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Multiplatform native client apps
There are native desktop, mobile and web client apps, that are optimized for speed and are light on memory usage.
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Open source client apps
Client apps are open source, making whole service more trustworthy.
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Unlimited storage
Unlimited number of files can be stored forever on the cloud. You can upload files up to 1.5 GB each.
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Voice and video messages
You can post voice and video messages if you are too lazy to write text messages.
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Group Voice Chat
This Discord-like feature adds to the interactivity of the application.
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Pinned Messages
You can pin messages to the top of groups or supergroups so members will see them when opening the group.
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Self-destruct messages
Messages in individual chats can be set to self destruct on a timer. They will disappear after the timer expires. Messages in all new chats can be set to self-destruct with a global auto-delete timer in Settings > Privacy and Security > Auto-Delete Messages.
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Edit or delete messages after sending them
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Banned in China
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Save time with inline bots and link previews
Unfortunately, on the desktop videos don't play, but images are viewable without visiting popular websites like imgur and Instagram. You can play YouTube videos and others within the app, so you don't need to embed code or anything. With inline bots, such as @gif, @pic/bing, @vid/YouTube, etc, you can look things up without leaving the client or chat that you're in. Simply type the name and some keywords and wait for the results to load.
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@mentions
You can ping people to get their attention by @mentioning them.
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Desktop app handles HiDPI
The desktop app has a built in setting to scale the UI of the app up to 200% which allows for those with 4k monitors/screens to use the app without scaling issues.
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High quality calls
Uses the latest GPL audio codecs, such as Opus, an adaptative high-quality codec that supersedes AAC at any bitrate.
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Customer support is within the app
Although it's volunteer based, but still pretty top-notch if available, which it tends to be.
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Large groups can have channels called 'Topics'
Topics are now available in groups of 100+ members and have a sleek two-column layout and new buttons to quickly navigate. A default topic called General is now in every topic group, holding the group’s service messages and previous message history.
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Popular in the USA
On SimilarWeb you can see that Telegram is on the top 15 among all communication apps.
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Platforms:
Web, Android, iOS, Windows, Linux, macOS, BSD, Windows phone, UWP
Publisher:
Various companies affiliated with Telegram
File Size:
2048 MB
End-to-end encryption:
Secret chats
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